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Russia will soon teach high school students how to build and fly drones, which have become a key weapon in the war between Moscow and Kyiv.

“Right now, there’s a huge demand from both the state and society for unmanned aerial systems,” said Mikhail Lutskiy, head of educational projects at Geoscan Group, the leading drone manufacturer in Russia.

Russia last year launched a nationwide project called Unmanned Aerial Systems to promote both the domestic production of drones and preparation of drone pilots and other specialists starting with high school students.

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[–] ChidiAnagonye@infosec.pub 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Careful, if you start teaching too much, some bored kid is gonna attach some "fireworks" and fly it into the Kremlin. 😏

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

Unfortunately that's useless, the people needing to be hit are all kinda distributed over all of Russia, and the punishment is severe.

But teaching children to build tools for modern war is an absolute positive. Possessing an AK is no good for a revolution today anyway, while with small drones you can do a lot.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Positively dystopian.

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Radio Free Europe is literally US propaganda. This is like thinking the National Enquirer is "News You Can Trust"

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 33 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Russia will soon teach high school students how to build and fly drones, which have become a key weapon in the war between Moscow and Kyiv.

Russia last year launched a nationwide project called Unmanned Aerial Systems to promote both the domestic production of drones and preparation of drone pilots and other specialists starting with high school students.

Seems to remind me of Hitler Youth for some reason... 🤷‍♂️

🤡 🖕 💩

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Thats what soviets did too. There were classes for gun assembly and shooting practice and its not a new thing.

I don't think military skill prep is a bad thing for small countries but coming from current ruzi administration is certainly is a bit on the nose. As in "training kids to terrorize country they invaded with semi-autonomous remote weapons" just doesn't ring the same as "military prep in case of invasion"

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

Teaching kids war is good in any case. Teaching kids that war is good is bad.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

Yeah tbh I agree with you. These lessons should be left for adults no matter how you look at this issue.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Gave me brave brew world vibes since they are essentially raising them up to be the foot soldier class. It would be even easier to draft them

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

Child soldiers are not Brave New World. More like shit old world.

[–] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Reminds me of this trailer I came across the other day.

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Links to Radio Free Europe articles get posted way too often on Lemmy. It's just RT for the US government.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It really is not cause nothing is as blatant as ruzi media

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

All bad things are equally bad?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Surely there are better sources of information than the Donald Trump administration's state media. Unless they think DOGE installed sycophants everywhere but there.

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social -2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

When American kids enter the fight expect the coolest under fire mother fucking soldiers you ever seen

An entire generation of kids raised in a war zone of school shootings

They’re already trained

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It’s bitter, not tasteless.

[–] romantired@shibanu.app 1 points 8 hours ago